Lie Down in Darkness
by William Styron | 
10:04
by Ben Lerner | 
An American Dream
by Norman Mailer | 
The Web and the Rock
by Thomas Wolfe | 
A Rage to Live
by John O'Hara | 
Bech Is Back
by John Updike | 
The Ultimate Good Luck
by Richard Ford | 
Running Dog
by Don DeLillo | 
Mrs. Ted Bliss
by Stanley Elkin | 
The Tidewater Tales
by John Barth | 
Ten North Frederick
by John O'Hara | 
Sombrero Fallout
by Richard Brautigan | 
BUtterfield 8
by John O'Hara | 
A Naked Singularity
by Sergio de la Pava | 
Angels on Toast
by Dawn Powell | 
The Late Mattia Pascal
by Luigi Pirandello | 
The Gadfly
by E. L. Voynich | 
The Conformist
by Alberto Moravia | 
The Moon and the Bonfire
by Cesare Pavese | 
The Aspern Papers
by Henry James |
The day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead. The hours leading up to his death were a nightmare for Peter - both in their violence and in their maddening unreality.The blaze of events which followed was, Peter soon realised, ignited by a conflict between two men: Mason Flagg himself and Cass Kinsolving, a tortured, self-destructive painter, a natural enemy and prey to the monstrous evil of Mason Flagg. Three events - murder, rape and suicide - explode in the is relentless and passionate novel, almost overwhelming in its conception of the varieties of good and evil.